A series of three programmes of personal reflections by Sir Compton Mackenzie.

For longer than most civilisations known to man the Minoans on Crete lived in a blaze of sun, colour, and luxuriant grandeur. Their artistic achievements are superb, but virtually nothing was known about them until D.G. Hogarth, and above all Sir Arthur Evans, uncovered fabulous treasures in the last sixty years. Yet they had little more to go on than the Homeric legends from time immemorial...
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